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From: ac02@NTSUVAX.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: ARC
Message-ID: <8803271953.AA19328@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 27 Mar 88 19:53:10 GMT
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This is the third time I have sent this letter.  I never saw it posted.

A while back I saw a message from a guy that said he had a copy of ARC
for the VAX.  Info-VAX stopped working correctly on BITNET since then
though I believe the problem is fixed now.  I may have miss the whole
program or something.  A friend of mine has tried to reach the person
that sent out the message mentioned above without any luck.  I need
a copy of ARC for the VAX badly.  I have VMSSWEEP which will read ARCed
files, but I need something that will write them.

For those of you who don't about ARC, it is a MS-DOS program that
creates an archive file whichs contains other files in compressed
format.  It is similiar to a BACKUP save set with two major
differences.  The first is the ARC file is small than the original
files.  The second is that ARC is a lot easier to use and I don't keep
putting stuff in the wrong directory with the wrong ownership as I do
with BACKUP.

IF anybody has another program that stores files in an archive and
compresses them too for the VAX, I would love a copy.  I have several
compression program for the VAX, but they will only compress one file at
a time.

Thanks,

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Billy Barron                  Bitnet : BILLY@NTSUVAX or AC02@NTSUVAX
Acting VAX system manager     TEXNET : NTVAXB::BILLY or NTVAXB::AC02
North Texas State Univ.     Internet : billy%ntvaxb.decnet@utadnx.cc.utexas.edu
                                SPAN : UTSPAN::UTADNX::NTVAXB::BILLY
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